How will Harry kill LV

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 127347


Karen: That's [the Harry giving up magic idea] a really good answer
and it's got me thinking alright. If Harry did sacrifice his magic,
he'd have to go back to living as a muggle and would lose day-to-day
contact with the WW, and Ron, Hermione etc (if still alive, which in
this instance would be more moving if they were) would carry on being
witches/wizards without him. Perhaps it would be kinder for someone to
perform a memory altering charm so that Harry forgot all about
everything. We would then come full circle. Harry would be famous in
the WW, his name known to every man, woman and child and there
probably really would be a 'Harry Potter Day' and Harry would once
again be completely oblivious to the whole thing."

Harry wouldn't have to give up his contact with the wizarding world. 
Muggles can be seen in Diagon Alley - Hermione's parents do it - and
I'm guessing that once you've seen Diagon Alley you always see it. 
There's Squibs in wizard places, like Filch and Arabella Figg [we see
her in the Ministry]. Harry would be more like them, not like a total
Muggle.

Harry's struggle after it was all over would be to find a purpose
again, to not just step through the Veil as he seemed wont to do in
the Ministry. The reaction to the end of all this would be terrible. 
Again, love for all his friends, perhaps most for one of them, would
save him. That will all happen after book 7 ends, maybe. If I was in
Harry's shoes, I wouldn't want to have my memories obliterated.

Karen: "On a slight tangent it was mentioned that magic was 'bestowed'
on Harry by LV's AK on him as a baby. What about the possibility that
he was actually born a squib and *all* his magical ability came from
LV? Therefore once the connection between them was broken he was left
as a squib again etc etc"

Sure it's possible, but there's no way to ever know now. As the son of
a powerful witch and wizard, the odds were in Harry's favor, but
there's no way to tell. 

Jim Ferer